I am having a seriously hard time getting Qpopper to work on our Linux mail
server. Sendmail has been installed on this box and has been running
perfectly for 9 months. I installed Qpopper and have not been able to get it
to run. I followed all of your FAQ's and even consulted our Linux
consultants and no one can figure out what the problem is.
Can you somehow offer me some assitance? The problem - whenever someone logs
in(using Outlook Express) they get a 'Your password was rejected' I have
checked and rechecked the password. I am using standard Linux
authentication, but tried the specialauth flag and still doesn't work.
I enabled tracing and got the follwing output...
Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Debugging turned on [pop_init.c:240]
Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: (v3.0.2) Unable to get canonical name of
client ###.###.###.###: Unknown host (1) [pop_init.c:401]
Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: (v3.0.2) Servicing request from
"###.###.###.###" at ###.###.###.### [pop_init.c:504]
Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: +OK QPOP (version 3.0.2) at
mail.$$$$$$$.com starting. [popper.c:160]
Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Qpopper ready for input from (null) at
###.###.###.### [###.###.###.###] [popper.c:188]
Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Received (16): "USER JohnSmith"
[pop_get_command.c:87]
Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: +OK Password required for JohnSmith.
[pop_user.c:249]
Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Qpopper ready for input from JohnSmith
at ###.###.###.### [###.###.###.###] [popper.c:188]
Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Received: "pass xxxxxxxxx"
[pop_get_command.c:81]
Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: User JohnSmith not in passwd file
[pop_pass.c:886]
Dec 21 16:00:29 mail qpopper[1113]: JohnSmith at ###.###.###.###
(###.###.###.###): -ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "JohnSmith" is
incorrect. [pop_pass.c:888]
Dec 21 16:00:29 mail qpopper[1113]: +OK Pop server at mail.$$$$$$$.com
signing off. [popper.c:242]
Dec 21 16:00:29 mail qpopper[1113]: (v3.0.2) Ending request from "JohnSmith"
at (###.###.###.###) ###.###.###.### [popper.c:253]
I changed certain text in the trace to protect the innocent. I checked my
\etc\passwd file and verified that JohnSmith existed. Does Qpopper use a
different passwd file?
Please Help!!!
Dave Robinson
